One Hundred Words

This decade has seen unprecedented innovation within tabletop gaming, yet while boardgamegeek.com currently lists over ninety thousand games, those accessible to people with sight impairments largely remain restricted to expensive Braille versions of traditional games such as chess. Isolation is frequently reported among this group, so it is an important to facilitate their access to social activities.

Metagame enables visually impaired people to play complex modern games through phone-based AI image recognition, and creates wider awareness of inclusive gaming by crowdsourcing the creation of audio tags for game components to sighted players and designers, bringing the entire gaming community together.

Honours Project

Tabletop gaming has transcended cultural boundaries for five thousand years. Yet, despite unprecedented innovation in design over the last decade, games available for people with limited vision remain restricted to expensive versions of traditional games like Chess. As visually impaired people report high levels of isolation, it is vital that this inherently social activity finally becomes accessible to all.
Metagame enables visually impaired people to play complex modern games through phone based image recognition and audio tagging, and creates wider awareness of inclusive gaming by crowdsourcing the creation of tags to sighted players and designers, bringing the entire community together.